Comments on: Solving this maze might be a bit of a stretch

By: William Kiernan

William Kiernan — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:43:00 +0000

By: bigmike7

bigmike7 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:16:00 +0000

The piece works as a meta-musing on the tope of self-exposure, a winking amuse bouche that maps the dislodging of the phenomenological, or the particular, onto the ascending trajectory (could we say primacy?) of the referent.

I wonder who else noticed that the textual content–”twisty, turny”–is in amusing dialog not only with the intestinal convolutions of the physical maze, but especially with the gaping yet unknowable Viscera of that famed prototype? With a pencil one is invited to probe the crisis of modern identity, whose existence is contingent on– indeed, parasitic to–the amplification of its very iterations and references through social media.

By: mattkatz

mattkatz — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:37:00 +0000

Weird – I don’t think you can. When I see a maze like this I usually test it by going from the goal outward. It looks like there are only 2 directions and they both deadend. Mervyn may never reach his lovely sweetcorn.

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:19:00 +0000

my young nephew’s current favourite joke is to walk out of the washroom with an amazed look on his face and announce “whoa! i didn’t even REMEMBER eating corn!”

By: bbonyx

bbonyx — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:23:00 +0000

Mervyn should be named “Kirk”

By: Layne

Layne — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:13:00 +0000

Exactly – i thought the gag was that it was unsolvable. Nooooooope.

As a previous poster said : scoot your chair back 12 inches and squint.

By: Willi

Willi — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Here is an ascii version of goatse, for every one who doesn’t see it in the maze and who doesn’t want to lose his internet innocence by looking it up…
http://goatse.ch/

By: francoisroux

francoisroux — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:20:00 +0000

That what has been seen, can not be unseen… And I was close to having solved it too… blegh…

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:16:00 +0000

There was me thinking “What a fun maze: and I like how they have some of the lines bolded so that, if you know to look at the positive marks instead of the negative space, following the bold lines inwards from the edge, and out from the goal, you can tell at a glance that the solution goes all around the image in a long path, because there’s no shorter path…

Then I look at the comments, and am saddened.

It’s actually a *good* maze. That’s the delight of it.

By: divacomputerchic

divacomputerchic — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:00:00 +0000

I don’t see it. help!!!

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:45:00 +0000

No you’re not.

Sleep now. Dream.

By: chris jimson

chris jimson — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:03:00 +0000

You should print out a copy of this maze for them, ostensibly for their kids.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:50:00 +0000

This was originally from B3TA, just for the record.

http://www.b3ta.com/board/10785319

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:28:00 +0000

Oh… that’s actually brilliant. Never considered that before.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:28:00 +0000

Hell, I used to work in a Fortune 50 company where my immediate boss forwarded so many offensive chain-emails that I started a blog called “Emails from my boss” (I deleted it long ago).

The family that owned the controlling shares in the company arranged for their employees to get free viewings of “The Passion of the Christ”, or as local writer Nathan Singer calls it, “Lethal Whippin’”.

By: alfanovember

alfanovember — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:05:00 +0000

Does anyone know how to induce the Chrome browser to take a new thumbnail snapshot of a frequently-visited page?

By: MB44

MB44 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Go to see this maize?

By: Memento Sushi

Memento Sushi — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:39:00 +0000

Subtle, yet horrific.

By: gijoel

gijoel — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:35:00 +0000

Funny how corn goes straight through you.

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:19:00 +0000

Oh man. I had to take off my glasses to resolve the image. And now I wish I hadn’t.

By: Artor

Artor — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:04:00 +0000

I could make out the hands, but I didn’t make the cornhole connection until I read the comments.

By: Matthew Wilkes

Matthew Wilkes — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:52:00 +0000

This was made by Drimble, from b3ta

http://www.b3ta.com/board/10785319 (currently on the front-page, too)

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:31:00 +0000

I am apparently immune to this meme.

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:25:00 +0000

I didn’t see it, thankfully. I scrolled down to read the comments and there’s no way I’m scrolling back up now.

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:11:00 +0000

Me, I’m trying to solve the maze: “this is a really hard maze! I can’t solve this! This is too difficult for kids!” Then I walked away and saw it. Ha Ha.
Can I get a unicorn chaser now?

By: Eddie Perkins

Eddie Perkins — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:59:00 +0000

Is this an advertisement of the new Batman flick? I think I see Bane’s face mask in the lines.

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:50:00 +0000

http://pushbutt.com/assets_c/2010/12/bradjosh-famousanus-thumb-500×378-947.jpg

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:37:00 +0000

i can’t stop laughing

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:34:00 +0000

I remember a friend at work was chatting with a mutual friend about goatse and then subsequent name calling once he saw it later that week. After that I casually introduced them to tubgirl and 1 guy 1 jar…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Well, golly, who’d be offended by that?!

It’s a small company in the South (it literally is one HR guy, who wasn’t terribly busy at that), populated by an unfortunate number of people who still think that Bill Gates is going to send them money if they forward an email. Take modern megacorp office policy and roll it back 20 or 30 years, and you’ll have a pretty good idea where the higher-ups would stand on most matters. Me, I’m just glad they don’t make me wear a suit and tie, as suggested by the 1972 copy of Dress for Success in the reference room.